Manufacturing Leadership Council members gather at Merck's manufacturing site in Durham, NC, to see how vaccines and other drugs are made, and to discuss key issues in digital manufacturing, including needed skill sets and how to use data effectively.
Finding people with digital skills sets and making better use of increasingly large volumes of data as advanced technology expands on the shop floor are challenges that must be ad… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/merck-plant-tour-digital-skills-data-take-center-stage/

The 91 manufacturers announced today as winners of the 2017 Manufacturing Leadership Awards, in fact, are proof positive that M4.0 is much more than a theory or future vision. These ML Awards winners are putting M4.0 into practice today and are well on th…
It shouldn’t come as a total shock to learn that, for many manufacturers, the path to a digitized, Manufacturing 4.0 future is turning out to be paved with challenges. That’s true… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/meet-2017-manufacturing-leadership-awards-winners/

We at the Manufacturing Leadership Council are thrilled with the number and quality of nominations we have already received for the 2017 Manufacturing Leadership Awards. It’s clear from the projects nominated so far that Manufacturing 4.0 and the transfor…
We at the Manufacturing Leadership Council are thrilled with the number and quality of nominations we have already received for the 2017 Manufacturing Leadership Awards. It’s clea… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/ml-awards-submission-deadline-extended-january-13/

Recent conversations among members of the Manufacturing Leadership Council show that effectively using real-time data and analytics to make better decisions is not just a technology issue. In a very real way, effectively embracing data-drive decision-maki…
When you boil it down, much of the focus on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Manufacturing 4.0 is about one thing: Getting clean, accurate, and actionable real time da… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/five-steps-creating-data-driven-decision-making-culture/

Manufacturers across all vertical industries are poised to dramatically ramp up investments in smart products, digitized processes and related technologies, skills, and training over the next four years, significantly altering the competitive landscape an…
Manufacturers across all vertical industries are poised to dramatically ramp up investments in smart products, digitized processes and related technologies, skills, and training o… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturing-40-invest-now-or-risk-falling-behind-report-warns/

There’s no doubt that the tools that enable big data and advanced analytics applications—everything from data management and storage platforms to data visualization tools—have, in recent years, matured dramatically, becoming faster, cheaper, and more powe…
There’s no doubt that the tools that enable big data and advanced analytics applications—everything from data management and storage platforms to data visualization tools—have, in… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/ibm-plant-tour-becoming-data-driven-manufacturing-enterprise/

For the past 12 years it’s been our pleasure to sponsor the Manufacturing Leadership Awards. One reason it’s a great experience is that it’s rewarding to help honor manufacturing innovators who, all too often, don’t get the recognition they deserve. Anoth…
For the past 12 years it’s been our pleasure to sponsor the Manufacturing Leadership Awards. One reason it’s a great experience is that it’s rewarding to help honor manufacturing … http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/6-lessons-about-future-manufacturing-winners-ml-awards/

I traveled to New York City last week to attend the 11th annual Jefferies Industrial Conference, a diverse gathering of more than 200 companies in the chemicals, aerospace and defense, automotive, metal fabrication, biofuels, and other market segments.
E…
I traveled to New York City last week to attend the 11th annual Jefferies Industrial Conference, a diverse gathering of more than 200 companies in the chemicals, aerospace and def… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/transformation-major-theme-jefferies-industrial-conference/

BOSTON--We all know the Internet of Things (IoT) will dramatically change the products we manufacture and use, making them smart, connected, and, ultimately, more autonomous.
But what impact will the IoT and all of those smart products have on the cultur…
BOSTON--We all know the Internet of Things (IoT) will dramatically change the products we manufacture and use, making them smart, connected, and, ultimately, more autonomous.
B… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/rethinking-manufacturing-organization-age-iot/

Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson this week agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a small fine to settle legal charges stemming from an embarrassing series of quality problems and management shortcomings that affected consumers of some of …
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Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson this week agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a small fine to settle legal charges stemming from an e… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/discussion/would-social-media-have-saved-jj/

As the new year begins, the editorial team at the Manufacturing Leadership Council offers its predictions for the year ahead:
As the new year begins, the editorial team at the Manufacturing Leadership Council offers its predictions for the year ahead:
U.S. Manufacturing Growth to Continue Strongly. L… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturing-trends-watch-2015/

In the third of a series of plant tours and round table discussions held this year, members of the Manufacturing Leadership Council gathered at Lexmark International’s Boulder, CO, plant to see how printer toner and photoconductor drums are made and to di…
In the third of a series of plant tours and round table discussions held this year, members of the Manufacturing Leadership Council gathered at Lexmark International’s Boulder, CO… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/lexmark-plant-tour-big-data-discussion-centers-business-rationale/

The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2015 Manufacturing Leadership Awards has been extended to December 12, 2014. “We wanted to give manufacturers ample time to prepare their nominations for this year’s ML Awards program, which we expect to be …
The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2015 Manufacturing Leadership Awards has been extended to December 12, 2014. “We wanted to give manufacturers ample time to prepar… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturing-leadership-awards-deadline-extended/

Big data means big challenges for manufacturing. Not only in how companies acquire, gather, secure, communicate, store, aggregate, prioritize and process the seemingly unstoppable peta-torrents of data now being generated by pervasive networks of sensors,…
A few miles from my office here in the U.K. sits Bletchley Park, the famous World War II code-breaking center, now a popular world-class heritage museum.
Bletchley Park is wher… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/if-big-datas-answer-whats-question/